Location Managers Guild International members with location scouting photos taken in the L.A. area, including of homes in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, are aiming to assist families that lost homes in the devastating L.A. fires by providing them with pictures of their residences for insurance claims.
LMGI board member Danny Finn relates that individual members have already started to do this, and the Guild is hoping to implement a more formal system so that homeowners can privately access these photos in response to the L.A. area wildfires that have destroyed thousands of buildings and caused mass evacuations, notably in areas including the Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena.
As a Guild, the members are aiming to potentially create a sort of database to identify photos of homes and their addresses, with a contact number for a location manager who could share the photos with the homeowner. Finn admits that it wouldn’t be known if many of the homes were lost, but this initiative would be a way of saying that if needed, the photos are available.
He added that location managers are additionally trying to spread the word to affected homeowners who might not have thought of this, to say, “‘if you’ve had your house scouted for a specific project, and that scout might have left you a card, reach out.’”
The requests are already comin gin. For instance Finn related that as a location manager for Disney’s upcoming sequel “Freakier Friday,” he and the team scouted many homes in the Pacific Palisades. “Nine residents [identified] scout photographs,” he reported. “The responses have been a bit overwhelming in an emotional sense, because they’re grateful, and they’re tremendously thankful for these. But at the same time, they’re sort of time capsules of a home that they just lost.”
